Brand Strategy & Marketing Internship

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Bright Bright Great is looking for an extern in Brand Strategy & Marketing to work in conjunction with our creative and marketing directors in our Chicago, IL offices, primarily in a social and digital media capacity.

Candidates should have a passion for social media, demonstrable experience and skill using social media and digital communications on a variety of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr. Given the time commitment of the position, students who are enrolled in classes for the current term will unfortunately not be considered.

This position is a 6 month in-office internship requiring the candidate to be physically present during normal office hours.

About BBG:

BBG is a small, enthusiastic team of incredibly talented individuals located in Chicago, IL & Las Vegas, NV. We also run a internal side hustles Avondale Type Co., our type foundry and The Secret Handshake, an advice tool and conference series for young designers.

Senior Art Director (Web, Mobile & Application)

Position Description:

Bright Bright Great is looking for a mid to senior level Art Director (5-10 years experience) with an incredible passion for creating eye-catching design and skill set to match, help grow and lead our creative vision in Chicago, IL.

Candidates must be able to show pixel perfect complex and thoughtful Art Directions for web, mobile, applications as well as demonstrate an expertise level understanding of print and branding to be considered. Photography/motion graphics are a plus.

BBG is a small, enthusiastic team of incredibly talented individuals located in Chicago, IL & Las Vegas, NV. We also run our internal side hustles Avondale Type Co., our type foundry and The Secret Handshake, an advice tool and conference series for young designers. We love what we do, period. We’re looking for new people to make amazing things with us.

How To Apply:

To apply, please send a resume, link to your portfolio/PDF (do not attach PDF’s in the email, please send as a link to PDF hosted on a file share like CloudApp or Dropbox) to sayhello@brightbrightgreat.com attention Jason Schwartz.

If you aren’t familiar with Assistance League and their (almost) 100 year mission, the 140 chapter organization, has strived to improve the quality of the lives of at-risk children and families by providing vital social services since 1919.

We couldn’t be more excited to partner up with such an amazing organization.

]]>https://brightbrightgreat.com/2015/01/29/bright-bright-great-is-excited-to-announce-creative-partnership-with-assistance-league-la/feed/0Bright Bright Great Added As Agency of Record for AIGA Chicago in 2015https://brightbrightgreat.com/2015/01/22/bright-bright-great-added-as-agency-of-record-for-aiga-chicago-in-2015/
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For 2015, AIGA Chicago has announced that they are working with six different partners as their Agencies of Record, who will divvy up the work of producing creative for all of AIGA Chicago’s events communications in 2015. Bright Bright Great is honored to be chosen to be one of those agencies and to be given the opportunity to apply some of our creative vision to AIGA’s programming for the Chicago community this year.

We are also thrilled to be working with our other five partners, Chuck Anderson, Trunk Club, Multiple, Someoddpilot, Ogilvy & Mather, and look forward to an amazing year with our community.

New York, NY (October 21, 2014) – The winners of The 2014 Davey Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts today. With nearly 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from the best small firms, agencies and companies worldwide. Please visit www.daveyawards.com to view the full winners list.

The Davey Awards exclusively honor the “Davids” of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock – the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets. The Davey Awards is the leading awards competition specifically for smaller firms, where firms compete with their peers to win the recognition they deserve.

The Davey Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit www.aiva.org for a full member list and more information.

Yesterday, Bright Bright Great picked up a 2014 Gold W3 Award for our 2014 work for Uncle Goose on unclegoose.com. Congratulations to both the BBG and Uncle Goose team members on this project. Link to Award on W3’s site.

]]>https://brightbrightgreat.com/2014/09/24/awards-bright-bright-great-wins-a-w3-award-gold-for-our-work-on-uncle-goose-2-0/feed/0BBG Named a 2014 Top Digital Agency by Clutchhttps://brightbrightgreat.com/2014/09/18/bbg-named-a-top-digital-agency-by-clutch/
https://brightbrightgreat.com/2014/09/18/bbg-named-a-top-digital-agency-by-clutch/#commentsThu, 18 Sep 2014 15:51:36 +0000https://brightbrightgreat.com/?p=7113Bright Bright Great is proud to have been selected as one of the top 15 digital agencies in the United States by Clutch in their 2014 list. Read the full release below.

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WASHINGTON, DC, September 18, 2014 — Clutch published new research on Leading Digital Agencies in the United States. Accompanying this research are companion directories highlighting additional Digital Agencies in the country.

Analysts reached out to firms across the United States who have a proven track record of successful projects for both local clients and leading global brands. The official findings are based on a range of factors that include the firm’s experience, client reviews, and market presence.

“These firms have clearly shown that they are capable of delivering high-quality work relating to digital strategy, digital design and digital marketing” explained Ayrald Hubert, Analyst at Clutch. “Where some companies only focus on a few services, these top firms have demonstrated their success by providing a complete digital solution for their clients.”

Clutch’s efforts to identify leading Digital Agencies remain ongoing, and they encourage proven firms to apply to participate in future research updates. Upcoming publications include Content Marketing Firms and Social Media Marketing Firms.

Clutch is a Washington, DC-based research firm that identifies top services firms that deliver results for their clients. The Clutch methodology is an innovative research process melding the best of traditional B2B research and newer consumer review services. Clutch utilizes a proprietary framework, the Leaders Matrix, which maps firms’ focus areas and their ability to deliver on client expectations. To date, Clutch has researched and reviewed 500+ companies spanning 50+ markets.

This is just a shot in the dark. Until the new iPhone 6 is announced, there really is no way to know true specs, but I wanted to point out a few of the logistic pieces.

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Over the last few months there has been a good amount of writing/guessing at the new iPhone 6 display resolution. Daring Fireball wrote a great article about how he came to the conclusion of definitive pixels.

I wanted to talk about 2 things.

First let me use Daring Fireball’s explanation as to what @2x and @3x mean:

“@2x means the same “double” retina resolution that we’ve seen on all iOS devices with retina displays to date, where each virtual point in the user interface is represented by two physical pixels on the display in each dimension, horizontal and vertical. @3x means a new “triple” retina resolution, where each user interface point is represented by three display pixels. A single @2x point is a 2 × 2 square of 4 pixels; an @3x point is a 3 × 3 square of 9 pixels.”

When the “retina” or @2x resolutions came to iOS devices and the Retina MacBook Pro, immediately the internet looked broken. It was a sea of blurry images that brought back memories of early web. Designers were better than that, but all of the work they created to date was pretty much outdated, they just hadn’t caught up yet.

Three years later, most companies still don’t know that their websites are blurry on retina Mac computers and certain devices.

Since that introduction, good web designers have been incredibly diligent about creating for retina to make sure that pixel perfect really means pixel perfect.

The addition of the @3x resolution means a few things.

1. Servers will now be serving up larger images. This adds to load times as well as data that sites will need to serve. Since hosting has data caps depending on where you have purchased, this might require more expensive hosting for media intense sites.

2. Designers who create in Photoshop will need to make assets at 3x instead of 2x. This is a big deal for a good portion of designers who still don’t work in code. For anyone who has created a 2x page at 2800×100000+ pixels you know that it destroys your memory. Only the best computers will be able to handle huge mock-ups at these sizes.

This change may warrant new expenses for designers.

3. Depending on execution, adding the @3x will add time to both design and development. Not every designer uses .SVG for icons and scalable elements. Not every designer even understands the reality of @2x images yet. Adding a 3rd component into the mix makes for additional work whether it be in site problem solving, data architecture, hosting, or creation of elements.

I personally am interested to see what happens once the next iPhone comes out.

]]>https://brightbrightgreat.com/2014/08/25/what-does-3x-resolution-really-mean-iphone-6-3x-png/feed/0New Work: Uncle Goose 2.0 – Interactive E-Commerce Experiencehttps://brightbrightgreat.com/2014/08/01/new-work-uncle-goose-2-0-interactive-e-commerce-experience/
https://brightbrightgreat.com/2014/08/01/new-work-uncle-goose-2-0-interactive-e-commerce-experience/#commentsFri, 01 Aug 2014 16:40:59 +0000https://brightbrightgreat.com/?p=7009Bright Bright Great has had the absolute pleasure to work with the fine folks over at Uncle Goose in Grand Rapids, MI over the last five months helping to facilitate the launch of their new 2.0 website. BBG handled not only art direction and front-end development, but also creation of a double CMS system, one for product management and sales and one for retailers as well as introduced the most requested feature, a dynamic “Uncle Goose Create-A-Name.” Due to the absolute spectacular quality and existing brand identity of Uncle Goose’s product it created an amazing platform for BBG to create with.